From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Puzzling behavior from echo area: truncates prompt string at 100 characters? Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:20:44 +0200 Message-ID: <837h1mxg0j.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83liq2xqm3.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1324732853 30215 80.91.229.12 (24 Dec 2011 13:20:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:20:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tdavey@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 24 14:20:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ReRWr-0004pm-8G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:20:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56129 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ReRWq-0006o2-PK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:20:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38258) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ReRWn-0006nx-Mj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:20:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ReRWm-00038q-HR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:20:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:35091) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ReRWm-00038l-9l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:20:44 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LWP00100M9ILP00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:20:42 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.84.173]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LWP00L9YMEIQFB1@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:20:42 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146957 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: Tom Davey , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:59:36 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > This limitation was there since 1991, but AFAICS it is not documented > > anywhere. > > I don't think this was a deliberate decision, just sloppy coding. Most probably. > > Do we want to keep this limitation? If so, it should be at least > > documented. > > I can trivially be lifted: Assuming Stefan and Chong approve, I think you should install this. Thanks.